The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-10-05
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
THE grave of Benjamin Franklin in Philadel'
phia is in much neglected condition.

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Terra del Fuego contains valuable farming
/ lands, forests and mineral deposits 1t is
! peopled by two distinct races OF SaVages, one
! being well formed and remarkably strong, SUD
siSting chiefly by the chase; the other coast
people, physically inferior, but not in intelli-
/ gence.
| 4 PARTRIDGE was found in a grass field in
Hockliffe, says the London Field, that was rear
/ ing a white barnyard chicken. When the
| chicken was caught the bird evinced all the
/ signs of distress usually shown if their natural
/ offspring are moleSted. The place where the
| bird was found is nearly a mile from any farm
| buildings.
| The Scottsboro (Ala) Citizen publishes the
editor of the opposition paper as "a contempt
| bic, low-down puppy, a scoundrel, an unmiti-
| gated liar, and rascal in every sense OF the
word, and adds: "Of course this bowling cur
| will vomit at us, but we hope never again 10
| have to darken our columns with mention of
| this miserable hound, whose record is not that
| OF gentleman"
| IN CLIMATES having difference of ZOE in tenn
perature between hot and cold seasons, rail-
| road track of 400 miles is found to be $3S yards
longer in simmer than in winter, so it has been
| aScertalned. Of course the length OF road re-
| mains the same, but expansion has the effect OF
| forcing the lengths of metal closer together,
| making an aggregate closing up of space be-
tween the rails of nearly yard in each mile.
| ONE of the attractions of a fair in McHenry
county, H., was the marriage of volunteer
couple. TO whom presents valued at $200 were
| TO be given. The couple came to the scratch
and were married in the presence of the multi
| tude, but it is charged that they had already
had the knot tied elsewhere. and the managers
of the fair are Withholding the presents pending
| the result of an investigation.
| SIX WEEKS AGO Negaunee (Mich) man took
walk out of town on the east range, accom-
| panied by his dog On his way home he missed
| the dog, but did not doubt he had preceded him
| back to town. few days ago two explorers
found the dog in a test pit seventeen feet deep
| and rescued him. He was mere skeleton after
| his six weeks fast but was still alive and has
| now almost regained his old proportions and
spirits.
| FEW DAYS AGO the men who were working
| at the bottom of the Pana Coal Company S mines
| came upon peculiar snake that had apparently
been blasted up by the last shot that had been
fired. 1t was alive and cooled up in bunch
when one of the workmen disclosed it with his
| shovel 1t had no eyes, apparently, and when
! sent to the top with u load Of dirt and thrown
/ upon the ground it twisted about in peculiar
| manner
/ FREEMAN Coop Detroit negro, was clught
butting down John Halls woodshed. Hall tried
| to stop him by hitting him on the head with an
| ak. When he had demolished the woodshed
| Good had Hall arrested. The Judge discharged
| the man who used the ak, at the same time de-
| lvering the opinion that Goods head was the
| more dangerous weapon of the two. Good has
| now challenged the world to a butting match
| for the championship.
In the mountain counties of Kentucky the
homes of the feuds characteristic of that region,
the average pay of a County Judge is 500
| year of a County Attorney $500, of a County
| Clerk $3.50. and of Sheriff $500, vet most of
| the rows originate in strife for these places.
| The perquisites, however, are priced, in the
! case of the late Judge Craig Toliver, of Rowan
! county whose office enabled him to considerably
| prOlong his career of lawlesSneSS.
DUBOIS COUNTY. INDIANA. has precious metals
in paying quantities. A ton of the ore was sent to
an assayer in Covngton. Ky, about three
weeks ago from the Seitz mine. seven miles
north of Jasper. i assayed $50 silver and 81
| gold to the ton. The assayer was at Jasper
| recently and entered into an agreement with
| Seitz Bros, on wHose farm the mine is, aud in
| six weeks he is to have smelling machinery
worth s., 900 erected on the ground
WHILE circus was exhibiting at the base
| of Fern cliff, Massachusetts,, two boaconstric-
| tors. something over ten feet in length. made
| their escape. which was not discovered for more
| than an hour. The circus men quickly armed
| with clubs and started in pursuit. They were
] overtaken. and with some dexterouS work with
forked sticks one OF them was securely pinned
| to the ground and recaptured. The other b..
| came ugly that no dared attempt the
| capture, and he was quickly dispatched with
| clubs.
! A POLICE PATROL WAGON in Baltimore was con
! veying passenger to a station-house when the
| rear axle snapped and the box came down on
| the pavement with a crash. The passengetwas
| sleeping when the mishap occurred but it did
not wake him. The noise of the crowd that
| gathered disturbed him, however. so that he
| yawned and turned over. From then he slept.
while the wagon was pried up and the axle tenn
porarily spliced, until it became necessary to
! tell the Judge how he happened to take drop
too much.
NEAR Mount Carmel the other DAY Mr.. John
Dell and Robert Nunley cut turkey oak, and
in the heart thew found several bullets The
tree a little over feet inches in diameter,
and parties skilled III woodcratt. after viewing
the point where it appeared the bullets had en-
tered the tree while it was small sapny.
estimate that the bullets fred into the tree
some eighty years ago. Counting the Ii1gs the
age of the tree was IO7 years. The distance
from the outside to where the first track of the
bullets were found was about II inches.
THE Ohio and Mississippi construction hands
at work on dump at Casyville, ILL.,. have dug
into an ancient burying ground. Some of the
bodies were found at depth of ten feet buried
in fine walnut coffins. Already fifteen skeletons
have been eXhumed and the hands are not re-
bufylng them, Lu. are dumping them in with
the dirt and rubbish to fill up the dump The
circumstances point to the fact that the bodies
belonged to civilized race but the oldest resi-
dents .em to have no knowledge of there ever
having been burying ground at that point and
its history probably dates back to the time of
the French settlements.
THE California Pioneer Society has a section
of timber taken from the side of the Powhatan
Including a portion of the skin, which is four
inches thick, and piece of the abutting knee
which Is nine inches thicl. rransversely through
tine whole a sWordiish has dashed his sword and
the portion broken of is still left imbedded in
the timber. the sword pierced through fourteen
inches of solid oak. aud the fish was going in the
same direction as the vessel. which was under n
good head of steam. An idea of the strength
which must have been eXerted can be obtained
from the fact that a ritied six FOUNDER could
not have done more than pierce that thickness
of wood
The London Court Journal says that at a
dinner given recently by a young American
millionaire, after the host had displayed i'm
mense sums in bank notes and many costly
gems, "he gave his leg a smart tap wi h knife
when IT emitted sweet, soft, ringing tone
which fell pleasantly on the ear and said.
That, my friends, il made of viryil California
gold and the garter is of diamonds of the first
water. They verified the fact as be rolled I'D
his trousers. On which the Coitrt jon ma
naively remarks Tue hero of Monte Crist
must take back seat" s. nj !sI the cham
pion liar of the western continent million
are with leg of virgin California gold goes a
LITTLE beyond the best American record If the
court journal meant that the knife and not
the leg, was of gold, it ought to have said So
WITH reference 10 wolf children C )rrespond
ent Of Chambers Journal writes as follows:
while lately a visit to Melbourne the writer
went with his wife and two little children, aged